Executive Team

Meg Whitman

Chairman, President andChief Executive Officer

Ms. Whitman has served as Chairman of the Board since July 2014, as President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2011 and as a member of the Board since January 2011. From March 2011 to September 2011, Ms. Whitman served as a part-time strategic advisor to Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, a private equity firm. Previously, Ms. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay Inc., from 1998 to March 2008. Prior to joining eBay, Ms. Whitman held executive-level positions at Hasbro Inc., a toy company, FTD, Inc., a floral products company, The Stride Rite Corporation, a footwear company, The Walt Disney Company, an entertainment company, and Bain & Company, a consulting company. Ms. Whitman also serves as a director of The Procter & Gamble Company.

Martin Fink

Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

Fink’s research team at HP Labs, the company’s exploratory and advanced
research group, is responsible for anticipating IT trends to address the complex
issues that will face our customers and society over the next decades. Working
closely with HP’s strategy teams and the business group research and development
teams, Fink is focused on commercializing the company’s intellectual property to
drive and accelerate the innovation agenda for the company.

During his career at HP, Fink has worked in a wide range of roles. Most recently, Fink drove the strategy and execution of HP’s Cloud business, launching the HP Helion portfolio of products and services, designed to help the industry transition to cloud-based provider and consumption models. As head of the NonStop Enterprise Division, Fink was responsible for the development, delivery, and marketing of the HP Integrity NonStop family of servers, database, and middleware software and solutions. He oversaw the Atalla Security Products line of network security processors for banking, Internet, and enterprise applications. Finally, he led the overall open source and Linux strategy across HP, helping the company gain external market leadership in Linux.

Fink joined HP in 1985 and spent his first 10 years in field operations in
Canada, holding a variety of positions in hardware and software support,
consulting, and telecom sales. In 1995, he moved to HP’s Ft. Collins, Colorado
site where he held a number of research and development leadership positions.

Fink has an MBA from Colorado State University, graduating Beta Gamma Sigma,
and is listed as co-inventor on two patents related to online e-commerce. He is
also the author of The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source,
published by Prentice Hall. He graduated in electronics engineering from
Loyalist College in Ontario, Canada.

Henry Gomez

Henry Gomez is executive vice president and chief marketing and
communications officer at HP. In this role Henry is responsible for leading
marketing, advertising, brand, media and industry analyst relations, executive
communications, employee communications, government affairs, global social
innovation and environmental sustainability. He also is a member of HP’s
Executive Council.

Gomez has more than 27 years of experience in marketing, communications, and
broad-based business management. Prior to joining HP in 2011, Gomez ran HSG
Communications, a consulting business that he founded. Before that, he served on
the leadership team of Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign in 2009 and 2010.

For most of the previous decade, Gomez worked at eBay in a variety of roles
including senior vice president for Corporate Communications and president of
Skype. He played a pivotal role in building eBay’s brand during the critical
years following the company’s initial public offering.

Prior to joining eBay, Gomez was vice president of Corporate Affairs at HBO,
where he oversaw the network’s corporate public relations, affiliate marketing
communications, regional press initiatives and special events.

Previously, he was staff director of Media Relations at NYNEX (now Verizon),
where he was responsible for all news media relations involving human resources,
labor relations and environmental issues facing the company.

He started his communications career at Hill and Knowlton and has worked on a
wide array of public relations and marketing communications challenges in
numerous industries.

Gomez serves on the board of directors of BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College.

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John Hinshaw

John Hinshaw is the Chief Customer Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology & Operations at Hewlett Packard. He joined the company in 2011 and leads our strategic accounts, strategic alliances, customer advocacy, information technology, sales operations, and global business shared services. John is a member of the company’s Executive Council and serves on the Ethics and Compliance Committee.

In addition, John leads relationships with many of HP’s largest customers. He also serves as the executive sponsor for HP’s business in the United Kingdom, Ireland and India.

Prior to Hewlett Packard, John spent 4 ½ years at The Boeing Company, most recently leading the Information Solutions business unit. He was also Boeing’s Chief Information Officer and led their companywide corporate initiative on Information Management and Information Security. While at Boeing, in 2009, John was named CIO of the Year by the Executives’ Club of Chicago and the Association of Information Technology Professionals.

Before Boeing, John spent 14 years at Verizon where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Verizon Wireless. He also held a number of key positions focused on enabling business growth, reducing costs and improving business productivity. Earlier in his career, John also served as a consultant with Accenture.

John is a member of the board of directors of the Bank of New York Mellon, DocuSign, the National Academy Foundation, and Clique Intelligence. He has also served on numerous technology company advisory boards and non-profit boards. John and his wife Julia have established a foundation with a focus on education, cancer research and other charitable needs.

John holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in computer information systems from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. He and his family reside in Woodside, California.

Prior to joining HP in 2011, Keogh was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Hewitt Associates, the world’s largest provider of human resources consulting services. Her accomplishments included creating an award-winning virtual learning and development network, implementing a disciplined global succession planning process, and designing a comprehensive and successful employee engagement program.

Previously, Keogh held the top HR job at Bloomberg LP, the financial data, news, and analytics provider. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Keogh was Vice President of Human Resources for Analog Devices, where she introduced a series of new HR programs ranging from a total compensation strategy and global succession planning process to a new employee listening program.

In addition to her human resources background, Keogh has a wide range of leadership experience in operations, sales, marketing, and consulting for a number of organizations.

Keogh holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Smith College. She also attended the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Keogh serves on the boards of the Anita Borg Institute, HR Policy Association and the Cornell Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) at Cornell University. In 2013, she was named a global Top 10 Breakaway Leader in Human Resources by Evanta.

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Cathie Lesjak

Executive Vice President andChief Financial Officer

Catherine A. (Cathie) Lesjak has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of HP since January 1, 2007. Lesjak served as interim chief executive officer of HP from August 2010 through October 2010.

Lesjak joined HP in 1986 and has held a broad range of financial leadership roles across the company. Before being named CFO, Lesjak served as senior vice president and treasurer, responsible for managing the company’s worldwide cash, debt, foreign exchange, capital structure, risk management and benefits plan administration. Earlier in her career at HP, she managed financial operations for Enterprise Marketing and Solutions and the Software Global Business Unit. Before that, she was group controller for HP's Software Solutions Organization and managed HP's global channel credit risk as controller and credit manager for the Commercial Customer Organization.

Lesjak has a bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University and a master of business degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Mike Nefkens

Executive Vice President,Enterprise Services

Mike Nefkens is executive vice president of HP Enterprise Services (ES), one of HP’s four global business units with $24 billion annual revenue and 120,000 employees. In this role, Nefkens is responsible for helping enterprises realize their vision. He has successfully enabled multiple enterprise and government transformations leveraging technology, services and people resulting in improved financial, customer and employee metrics.

Nefkens is recognized not only for his turnaround expertise and experience but also for the successful restructuring of global businesses. Nefkens served as senior vice president and general manager of HP Enterprise Services in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) where he was directly accountable for its turnaround and the HP-EDS merger integration. He also led the revitalization of three of HP’s largest services accounts, including General Motors, ABN AMRO, and Delphi.

A seasoned international executive, Nefkens spent ten years with Holland Chemical International NV, a downstream industrial distribution company, where he held a range of executive management positions, including regional president and general manager in Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and North America.

Nefkens serves as a member of the Riverbed Board of Directors. He holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a degree in finance from Texas Christian University. He speaks fluent English, Spanish and Dutch, and lives near Palo Alto, California with his wife and two sons.

In this role, he is responsible for the development and delivery of IT infrastructure solutions at the core of the world’s largest and fastest growing companies and government agencies. In addition, he oversees the direction, management, and delivery of HP’s cloud efforts focused on the capabilities, the components and the services critical to a cloud that enterprises rely on – driven by choice, confidence and consistency.

Most recently, Neri led HP Servers and HP Networking business units where he drove technological and go-to-market strategies for Compute, Software-Defined Networking and Network Fabric architectures for a combined $15B+ in revenue. In this role, Neri was responsible for delivering an innovation rich portfolio including HP CloudLine, built for scale; HP Apollo family of high performance computing; HP Moonshot, the world’s first software defined web server; HP ProLiant servers, the world’s number one server brand; HP BladeSystem, the world’s number one bladed infrastructure; HP Integrity for mission-critical computing; and introduced the industry’s first complete software-defined network (SDN) product portfolio and partner ecosystem.

Previously, Neri was the leader of HP Technology Services, one of the largest global business segments of HP’s Enterprise Group. HP Technology Services provides Support and Consulting services for HP’s Converged Infrastructure products and solutions.

Neri joined HP in 1995 and has more than 25 years of experience in the services industry. Neri has established new services delivery capabilities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and in the Americas, in support of both imaging and printing and personal computing products. He has also managed the Total Customer Experience and Quality, and Warranty Services organizations.

Neri holds a Computer Engineering degree and is a Professor of Arts and Drawing.

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John Schultz

Executive Vice President andGeneral Counsel

John Schultz was named Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Hewlett-Packard Company in April 2012.

Prior to his role as General Counsel, John was the Deputy General Counsel for Litigation Investigations and Global Functions where he managed all major litigation filed against HP globally, including all intellectual property, government investigations, and commercial and employment disputes.

Before joining HP in September 2008, Schultz was a partner in the litigation practice of Morgan Lewis focusing on complex litigation, primarily defending consumer class-action, fiduciary liability, and technology-related commercial litigation. He was previously at Drinker Biddle & Reath for 14 years, where he also specialized in commercial and product liability litigation.

Schultz holds a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his undergraduate degree from Albright College.

Bill Veghte

Executive Vice President andGeneral Manager, Enterprise Group

Bill Veghte is Executive Vice President and General Manager of HP’s Enterprise Group, a $28 billion annual revenue business that includes server, storage, networking, technology services, and cloud solutions.

In this role, he is responsible for the development and delivery of IT infrastructure solutions at the core of the world’s largest and fastest growing companies and government agencies. In addition, he oversees the direction, management, and delivery of HP’s cloud efforts focused on the capabilities, the components and the services critical to a cloud that enterprises rely on – driven by choice, confidence and consistency.

Veghte most recently served as HP’s Chief Operating Officer. As COO of HP, he was responsible for helping to define HP’s strategy and enabling operational excellence across the company. Prior to his role as COO, Veghte served as HP’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of HP Software. Prior to HP, Veghte spent two decades at Microsoft in a variety of senior leadership positions.

Based in Palo Alto, California, Veghte is known for his passion for technology and what it can do for customers. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian studies from Harvard University.

Weisler most recently served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Printing and Personal Systems, Asia Pacific and Japan. In that role, he was responsible for all aspects of the PPS business in the region.

Prior to joining HP, he was the vice president and chief operating officer of Lenovo's Product and Mobile Internet Digital Home Groups. In addition to this, Dion led the Global Transaction Model globally. Prior to this, Weisler was the General Manager of Korea, ASEAN and ANZ where he was responsible for Lenovo's complete business in these markets.

With more than 23 years of experience in the IT industry, Dion has held numerous key executive positions across multiple geographies in the IT and telecommunications sectors. Before joining Lenovo, as a General Manager at Telstra Corporation, Australia's leading telecommunications company, he was responsible for Telstra's Conferencing and Collaboration products and services division. He also had a successful 11-year career at Acer, where he was the Managing Director of Acer UK having previously established and operated Acer's business in Central and Eastern Europe as Managing Director of the region.

Robert Youngjohns

Executive Vice President and
General Manager, HP Software

Robert Youngjohns serves as executive vice president of HP Software and member of HP’s Executive Council. He leads HP’s multi-billion dollar software portfolio that includes IT Operations Management, Application Delivery Management, HP Autonomy, Enterprise Security and HP Vertica. Together, this portfolio enables enterprise IT organizations to develop, operate, secure, govern, and monetize their data, applications and operations.

Robert Youngjohns previously served as senior vice president and general manager of the HP Autonomy/Information Management business unit, within HP Software. In this role, he was responsible for a portfolio of products that enabled companies to analyze and draw business value from unstructured information. Known for being a technology evangelist, Youngjohns has more than 30 years of sales, marketing, strategic business development and general management experience in the technology industry.

He joined HP from Microsoft where he was most recently president of Microsoft North America. Before he joined Microsoft, Youngjohns was president and CEO of Callidus Software, a $120 million public company, where he initiated the company's transition from traditional enterprise software to SaaS (Software as a Service). Prior to that, he spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems, where he had a variety of leadership positions in sales and general management both regionally and globally. Youngjohns also had a successful 18-year career at IBM, holding key leadership roles from deep technology specialization to general management.

Youngjohns holds a master's degree with honors in Physics and Philosophy from Oriel College, Oxford University.